Lemon

n.	1.
	1.	(Bot.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species Citrus Limonum or Citrus Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.
	2.	The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree. Lemon grass (Bot.) a fragrant East Indian grass (Andropogon Shœnanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery. Lemon sole (Zool.) a yellow European sole (Solea aurantiaca). Salts of lemon (Chem.) a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid, which is the characteristic acid of lemon; - called also salts of sorrel. It is used in removing ink stains. See Oxalic acid, under Oxalic.

Noun	1.	lemon - yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
	2.	lemon - a strong yellow color Synonyms: lemon yellow, maize, gamboge
	3.	lemon - a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit Synonyms: Citrus limon, lemon tree
	4.	lemon - a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons
	5.	lemon - an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory Synonyms: stinker

acid, acidulant, aureate, auric, beige, bomb, bread-and-butter pickle, buff, buff-yellow, bust, canary, canary-yellow, chokecherry, citron, citron-yellow, crab apple, cream, creamy, dill pickle, dud, dull thud, ecru, fallow, fizzle, flat failure, flaxen, flop, floperoo, frost, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, green apple, lemon-yellow, lime, loser, luteolous, lutescent, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, pickle, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sourdough, straw, straw-colored, total loss, turkey, verjuice, vinegar, washout, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish, yogurt

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